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2015 Valle d’Aosta Rosso “Torrette Supérieur”
Château FeuilletThe Torrette denomination designates reds made primarily from the Petit Rouge grape, grown high in the mountains of Valle d’Aosta in the shadow of Monte Bianco. Typically, these wines are light, floral, and teeming with energy, but here we have a slightly different creature. To create this Torrette Supérieur, the grapes are dried for several days after harvest, then pressed and aged in barrel to give an equally lively red with a bit more guts and bass notes. Feuillet’s rendition features whiffs of cracked pepper, bursting wild forest berries, and crunchy mountain minerals. There is nothing else quite like it.
—Anthony Lynch
Wine Type: | red |
Vintage: | 2015 |
Bottle Size: | 750mL |
Blend: | Petit Rouge |
Appellation: | Valle d'Aosta |
Country: | Italy |
Region: | Valle d’Aosta |
Producer: | Château Feuillet |
Winemaker: | Maurizio Fiorano |
Vineyard: | 15 years average, 0.5 ha |
Soil: | Sandy, alluvial topsoil, granite bedrock subsoil |
Farming: | Sustainable |
Alcohol: | 14% |
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Normally $225.00
SPECIAL SAMPLER PRICE $169.00
(a 25% discount)
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Where the newsletter started
Where the newsletter started
Every three or four months I would send my clients a cheaply made list of my inventory, but it began to dawn on me that business did not pick up afterwards. It occurred to me that my clientele might not know what Château Grillet is, either. One month in 1974 I had an especially esoteric collection of wines arriving, so I decided to put a short explanation about each wine into my price list, to try and let my clients know what to expect when they uncorked a bottle. The day after I mailed that brochure, people showed up at the shop, and that is how these little propaganda pieces for fine wine were born.—Kermit Lynch